SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
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🌍 Mission: a world where people & planet > profit!
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At the 🇺🇳 UN General Assembly, States voted to adopt the climate accountability resolution, as tabled by Vanuatu with no changes!
What a win for #ClimateJustice:
✅ 141 in favor,
❌ 8 against,
🙊 28 abstentions!
The resolution is NOW adopted!
When it comes to AI, the EU simply has to stop buying into self-interested corporate narratives around the AI Race – whether they come from the US or the EU – as synonymous with the public interest, writes Margarida Silva.
The EU's drive to embed AI everywhere, all of the time, risks significant costs for the environment, public budgets, and workers, writes Margarida Ramos.
buff.ly
Tech Policy Press
Center for International Environmental Law
Breaking: countries are backing world court opinion that countries have a legal duty to address climate change 📢
But this must go hand in hand with:
- corporate accountability
- strong regulation of harmful activities
- reparations to affected communities suffering climate-related harm.
Attacks against human rights defenders who fight business harms are rising, reveals @business-humanrights.org's new analysis 🚨
The analysis unpacks worsening trends, like corporate lobbying and influence, partly informed by SOMO's research.
Read more: www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/b...
The Big Tech Lobby Playbook is now available in Portuguese.
Thanks to our partners @ctrlz-org.bsky.social 🙌
Check it out ➡️ ctrlz.org.br/cartilha-de-...
New revelation of how much Shell knew about the poor condition of its pipeline in the Niger Delta 🚩
Internal docs obtained by the BBC show “Shell continued operating a major oil pipeline in Nigeria for years even though it knew it was causing widespread pollution.” ⤵️
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Good news! Remember when we raised the alarm on fashion brands' social washing? 👚👖🧐
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has now taken an important step: it made social claims in fashion a focus of its 2026 sustainability supervision. 💪
@cleanclothes.bsky.social
SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
Next week @ec.europa.eu will publish its tech sovereignty package.
But the parallel drive to embed AI everywhere risks creating significant impacts for the environment, public budgets, and workers.
New op-ed by @margaridasilva.bsky.social:
www.techpolicy.press/why-made-in-...
Let's talk climate justice at #LCAW2026📢
We'll be co-hosting these events:
A just transition beyond extraction: Indigenous Peoples’ rights
and climate action
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From compensation to reparations: leveraging the ‘polluter pays’ principle
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
Dutch media reported that Microsoft shared the names of civil servants with the US Senate Committee prodding into the EU's platform rules.
Another reminder that Microsoft and co. have no qualms about complying with the Trump administration.
It is time to dump Big Tech.
nos.nl/artikel/2615...
SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
Het gaat om ambtenaren die betrokken zijn bij de handhaving van Europese regels om techplatforms te reguleren. De Amerikaanse overheid ziet die regels als censuur.
Antes das big techs venderem exploração como “inovação”, a indústria do tabaco já vendia fumaça como saúde — inclusive com cigarro para asma e propaganda com médico de jaleco. Hoje parece absurdo, mas um dia foi normalizado.
